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Quote from: vrglguapo on July 04, 2011, 07:22:09 PM
Never mind the Doctor assesment..But did you give him money to buy a cup of coffee and a bag of doughnut at
Starbuck..

i hold hopes that some amount was invested for the acquisition of coffea arabica and a supply of sweet folate-added dough made from yeast, water, milk, sugar, butter, flour, and eggs that is extruded into a ring shape and deep fried in oil, sometimes dusted with cinnamon and sugar after cooking.

maayo unta kun barato ang presyo, from the 1st to the consolation secret prices.

secret sad tingali ang adulfs & childrens contistants.

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

(Newser) â€" The Chinese people trust prostitutes more than they trust politicians, scientists, or soldiers, according to a new survey from Insight China Magazine.  Sex workers finished third, the BBC reports, with 7.9% of the vote, just behind farmers and religious workers.  “A list like this is at the same time surprising and embarrassing,” said an editorial in a state-run newspaper.

The editorial took some solace, however, in the fact that scientists and politicians “have not slid into the least credible category which consists of real estate developers, secretaries, agents, entertainers, and directors.”


http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://img1.newser.com/

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 02, 2011, 04:03:30 PM
Kinsa man kuno bi...   

suholi usa ko aron ko motug-an...

a strange sign in keeping with prostitution in china.  it looks like there is racial discrimination even in these quarters.  2 chinese girls for the price of one russian!?  weird.  

and what, by the way, is the difference between 'malay girl' and 'philippine girl'?  

p.s. i wonder what the price is for a 'spratlys girl'.

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 04, 2011, 08:16:23 PM
Bitaw, Ms. Chis, di pa uwahi ang tanan. Pangitag mas kwartahang byudo nga setentahon. Pakasli. Ten years from now ikaw 28 pa siya malagmit dedbol na.

with due respect, because both are now dead, anna nicole smith (1967-2007) was the 26-year-old june bride of 89-year-old j. howard marshall (1905-1995) on june 27, 1994.

what they were:  anna nicole smith was  a stripper, model, sometime actress, and playboy's 1993 playmate of the year; j. howard marshall was a billionaire oil tycoon, university professor, lawyer, and federal government official  



epilogue:  unfortunately, the bride was excluded from the groom's will.

morag hanap, ms chis, ang tambag ni hubag.

ka-bilyako sad ni manoy uy.  bilyaka sad si inday nga nagpahimus ug central azucarera de papa.  sugar daddy gyod na kay unsa man god intawoy mainteresahan ug 18 anyos sa usa ka singkwenta anyos?

horrors!  i should never have a pet crocodile.  at least, with cats and dogs, i only get some scratches now and then, punctuated sometimes by a rare unintentional bite or a flea that mistakes me for a cat or dog as a bonus. 

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 04, 2011, 05:56:05 PM
Salamat bay. Pero ambot nganong naa may di malingaw...

malingaw lagi na kun imong abibahon.  ma-mutual admiration club god mog ahat...

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 04, 2011, 06:19:50 PM
Hmm, nangitag putatsing?

boto, ibig kong sabihin, votes.  ano ka ba, iba palagi ang nasa isip mo.  tarongin mo nga ang landas mong hiwi.

Quote from: Lorenzo on July 04, 2011, 10:39:47 AM
Ang opinion ni Beyotch : "in vino veritas"

Ang opinion ni bungitzoy : "et reverso infinitum"

Ang reaksyon ni Lorenz :   

hambogum pestum.

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 04, 2011, 06:00:30 PM
He he, diay tulo ka matso nga merfrogs, pili lang kinsay imo...

arang matsoha gyod tuod.  pero di ni sila frog princes.  kun porma lay basehan, pormang nangitag boto.  mga frog congressmen ni sila.  

naklaro na gyod tuod nga pan diay.  unsa may ngan ani?  pan de boksing?  hinoon, bisag di ko boksidor, magamit nako ni.  ihapak na lang diretso sa tangkugo.

hahay.  imbis tikia ba ani uy, bakia ba ani uy man ang angay ani... hubag, mahimo kang baki!  hihihi!

soloha.  bahalag moingon ka nga guwapo ka nga frogman, mermaid gihapon ko.

kun bread na as i imagine, hayahay ang kontrang magnganga.

in the end, rj10, the solution to our problem of material poverty (as the west sees it) is better governance, better economic policies and enforcement, better education for everyone.  it is far from better access to contraceptives from big western pharmaceuticals and certainly it is not to have fewer of us.  

Quote from: rj10 on July 01, 2011, 10:04:24 PM

so you mean that people should not be able to enjoy sex without becoming pregnant?

no, i didn't mean that.  and neither do i need to say that we are not animals who go by instincts alone.  what i meant was the discipline of postponing the enjoyment of sex if at the moment one risks pregnancy that is unwanted.   unlike eating, which is basically for survival, sex is basically for perpetuation, no doubt a happy act that ought to be enjoyed by responsible couples, but still it remains an act whose postponement to safer days couldn’t kill.  i trust that humans are capable of moral restraint.   

Quote from: rj10 on July 01, 2011, 10:04:24 PM

That may be, but does that make them wrong? their motives for wanting the bill to pass are questionable. i for one believe that philippines will face a huge problem in the future unless something is done. lets say it is the pharmaceuticals companies that are behind the bill, and you dont pass the bill for that reason, then what will you do about this problem? Or maybe there never was a problem? It was all made up by the big pharmaceutical companies?

your belief that countries like the philippines have overpopulation problems is in keeping with a long tradition.  the economist thomas robert malthus had believed in the hysteria of overpopulation way back in 1798.  he hypothesized that since humans reproduce geometrically (i.e. at an increasing rate) while food production increases only arithmetically (i.e. at a steady rate), then the natural result would be overpopulation and subsequent mass starvation.

his basic assumption was flawed.  today, advances in technology made geometric increases in food production possible.
the world currently produces enough food to feed the world three times over.  even if no extra advances in agricultural technology were made this means that we could feed a population of over 19 billion people, assuming as well that no extra land was brought under cultivation.  even the most pessimistic neomalthusians do not predict this kind of population increase.  

(from http://hubpages.com/hub/The-World-Is-Not-Too-Crowded)


perhaps it is safe to conclude that westerners look at our numbers as a problem and the big pharmaceuticals are making a sales pitch for their products as the solution.

no study, not even by three nobel prizewinners, ever showed a direct link connecting high population with high poverty rates.  this makes the u.s.'s NSSM200 policy that "deems population growth as inimical to the socio-political and economic growth of these countries..." as a lame excuse for the more important "national interests of the United States".

may i share this interesting how-can-we-not-believe-this blog excerpt i found somewhere:

Correlation is not causation.  It is short-sighted to think of declining population growth as a goal in of itself.  Population control, as an economic policy, has proven to be unsustainable.  Across Europe and Asia, countries that saw steep declines in fertility in the past generation are now bracing themselves for the future consequences of an aging population, when a large number of elderly can no longer be supported by the smaller and younger working class.  During the 1970s and 1980s, Singapore instituted an aggressive two-child policy, which led to a situation of labor shortages and the difficulty of supporting an aging population.  In an effort to recover, Singapore now pursues a pro-fertility policy.

In the case of Hong Kong, the country’s dense population has had no debilitating effects on its economic development.  Hong Kong has experienced a great economic boom and high levels of economic prosperity largely due to a sound banking system, no public debt, a strong legal system, and a rigorously enforced anti-corruption regime.  This case provides a clear example that economic development is not synonymous with small population size, and that a large population is not only sustainable but an asset to development.


excerpted from http://fightrhbill.blogspot.com/2011/02/handy-summary-of-some-of-major.html

let me repeat; the population of these countries has to be controlled because:

1) the u.s. needs increasing amounts of minerals and,
2) these countries can produce destabilizing forces against the u.s.

this was in 1975.  thirty-six years later, in 2011, i doubt if any country in the list has destabilizing forces arrayed against the u.s.  (some might say that pakistan may be the exception, although one can argue that it’s the u.s. that’s destabilizing pakistan, depending on one’s point of view.) 

some projections (and fears) by named western planners just don’t make the cut, yet they become touchstones for government policy.  they were right only in that these countries all have increasing populations.  meanwhile, “overpopulated” brazil and india had made it to the top ten (#7 and #10) in terms of gdp.  mexico (#14), turkey (#17), and indonesia (#18) made it to the top 20.

the philippines ranks at number 46 out of a total of 190 countries.  for a country whose poverty is much ballyhooed, it looks like we’re punching above our reach.   


(2010 data from cia world factbook)

Quote from: rj10 on July 01, 2011, 10:04:24 PM
Hi again, been away for awhile

To answer your questions:

first , we are not in the risk of being overpopulated, but in the Philippines this is a growing problem.
second, dont you think its a good thing that we help?

hi, too.  welcome back.  (i was out for a couple of days myself.)

please let me put it simply, rj10, and i hope i won't sound too belligerent about it; it is but too western to look at us as more mouths to feed rather than more hands that work.

while it is acknowledged that it is a universally good thing to help, when it comes to geopolitics, the reality is such that any country that appears benevolent with its aid actually has its own interests to protect first and foremost.  there is no aid without a tag that serves the donor’s interests.  the idea of overpopulation and its control is no exception.  the controversial  1974 National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests (NSSM200) of the United States National Security Council, as directed by henry kissinger, is a fine example.  thus:
 
The policy gives "paramount importance" to population control measures and the promotion of contraception among 13 populous countries, including the Philippines, to control rapid population growth.

The policy deems population growth as inimical to the socio-political and economic growth of these countries and to the national interests of the United States, since the "U.S. economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad", and these countries can produce destabilizing opposition forces against the United States.

It recommends the US leadership to "influence national leaders" and that "improved world-wide support for population-related efforts should be sought through increased emphasis on mass media and other population education and motivation programs by the UN, USIA, and USAID."

This was adopted as official U.S. policy by President Gerald Ford in November 1975.  It was originally classified, but was later declassified and obtained by researchers in the early 1990s.

The thirteen countries named in the report as particularly problematic with respect to U.S. security interests: India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Turkey, Nigeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil.  These countries are projected to create 47 percent of all world population growth.


excerpts from wikipedia

huhuhu, no.  i tried so hard for many years to learn how to swim with my head above water.  i didn't make the cut no matter what.  i wish i were a mermaid.

ms da binsi drops by now and then, and wolfie may come in anytime now. 

would that your names appear in tb again.  that would be great!

just asking.  

ambot kun unsay naa sa facebook kay di ko familiar ana.  daghan lang kog nabasahan bahin sa facebook nga di nako type.  naay nangawa sa tb nga may chance nga mobalik, naa poy mosulod nga bag-o.  always, when there's a vacuum, it is a vacuum for others to come in.

This photo series by Warren Cano Sopa captures kids from Baybay, Leyte still playing “traditional” street games despite the onslaught of computer games. These narrow streets and vacant lots are sites where lifelong camaraderie among the players starts. Three games are depicted here: bato lata , buwan-buwan or enter-enter, and shatom.


http://bonvito.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/photo-of-the-day-street-games/

computer screen name?  hahaha!  islander pod akong nom de plume ug nom de guerre, fyi.

reunion of baby alibangbang's clan as hosted by a distant relative:

favorite distant relatives of baby alibangbang:

distant relatives of baby alibangbang:

baby alibangbang:

maglukso-lukso ang mananap sa ulo
nga nailhan na nato sa ngan nga kuto.

sureness ko kinsa nang gamay sa right.

is this possible?  or is that cheetah a stuffed toy?  or is this photoshopped?

siyalan ba diay.  kadaghan ba diya ug klase sa prosti.

mas katuhoan pa sila didto sa moon ug sa dinosaurs kay naay shadow ug reflection respectively.

handsome gyod, hehe.  mora lagi silag nakakita ug alien.

ug manundog dayon ni jim carrey nga naghuwam ug bathing suit.

mahimo sad ninyong pangadye-pangadyean ang iyang boots.

mas bilib ko ani niya kun katamnan na ni siyag lubi sa tangkugo kay natural ang fertilizer.

ang mobalit-ad bagol ang ngan.  tsinelas ang gamiton.

beer belly nga gisapawan ug six-pack abs; could he ask for anything more?  what a fulfilled guy.

unsa may bala ani?  ayaw ko ingna nga tambis...

in other words, if it suits you, go to both faith healers and mainstream medical practitioners.

However, some form of Psychic Surgery has also been documented in the Amazons, Brazil, Indonesia and Africa.  What conditions can be treated?  The following represents only a few examples of conditions I have seen treated by the various Bare Hand Surgeons I visit:

* Seven years ago, Bare Hand Surgery was performed on a friend of mine suffering from Parkinson's disease.  This successfully stopped the progression of the disease for many years.

* A Psychic surgeon cleared "growths" from around my prostate.  He then left a Kleenex tissue inside my body overnight to prevent the seeping of blood back in the testicles (I could feel the tissue inside me).

* I had a 12-inch tumor removed from my large intestines.  I was eating a normal meal half an hour later.

* A surgeon cleared the ovaries and fallopian tubes of a patient.

* Another patient had 12 feet of growth removed from his colon.  He had been suffering from IBS for years.  IBS is now gone.

* I had 42 tumors removed from my liver over a period of two weeks in September 2001.  This was witnessed by 5 participants.

* The eyes of a person suffering from cataracts where "cleaned".

* One member of our group had growths that were attached to her spine removed.  This lady had had problems moving her head fully and had suffered from chronic pains in her shoulders for many years.  The instant improvement to the head was obvious and her shoulder pains have now completely disappeared.  Months of physical therapy had previously had very little impact.

* One surgeon removed many diseased tissues from another group member.  This man was gradually losing the use of his hand and arm and the left side of his body was slowly being paralyzed.  He is now well and full of energy.

* I witnessed two different Bare Hand Surgeons successfully remove deep brain tumors from two different patients.

* A "goiter" was cleared from a man's throat.

* One surgeon removed numerous tumors from the reproductive organs of a patient who was suffering from terminal cancer.  This person is now feeling alright.

* One surgeon cleaned the arteries around the heart of a patient.

* etc…. etc.. the list is too long to mention.

Most of this has been filmed and can be seen on videotape.

Basically, Bare Hand Surgeons do not specialize in any specific disease.  They work with "energy" on everything presented to them.

Is there any guarantee of success?  No.

I strongly recommend that you seek medical advice and care for any medical condition from which you may suffer.


http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Psychic-Surgery-healing-in-the-Philippines/

Many theories have been suggested to explain this:

1. The concentration of Spiritist churches that train healers and psychic surgeons is unique to the Philippines.

2. Filipinos believe in spirits that they call "anitos".  They also believe in nature spirits that inhabits every part of the habitat (mountains, caves, rivers etc.).  This makes communication with the spirit world much more natural than it does for the rest of us.

3. The Philippines lies on top of the sunken continent of Lemuria.  Lemurians had advanced psychic powers and intuition.  The Filipinos have inherited these qualities.

4. Poverty is rampant in the Philippines; many cannot seek medical care, and have to rely heavily on local healers.


http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Psychic-Surgery-healing-in-the-Philippines/

How is Psychic Surgery performed?

Basically, a Psychic Surgeon enters a person's body using his/her bare hands and manually removes diseased tissues, tumours, calcium deposits, pus etc., painlessly from the patient's body, coming out without leaving any visible marks or scars.

No drugs are used and the person, in most cases, does not feel any discomfort.  When a pain is felt it is usually because the part of the body where the surgery takes place was already sensitive or that the person tensed up during the surgery.  The wound heals immediately and the person is able to resume a normal life within a few minutes.

When you ask a Psychic Surgeon to explain his work, he will tell you (in most cases) that he does not perform the surgery but that the Holy Spirit channels him.

Is Psychic Surgery only practised in the Philippines?

It is true that there are more Psychic Surgeons in the Philippines than anywhere else in the world.  Their concentration in the Philippines is observed in Manila, Pangasinan, Baguio and Cebu.


http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Psychic-Surgery-healing-in-the-Philippines/

Psychic Surgery healing in the Philippines

by Patrick Hamouy

(Patrick Hamouy has since 1997 taken groups of people to the Philippines to visit Psychic Surgeons. He has worked with over 40 surgeons. His experience in organising trips to the Philippines is wide. He has a list of reliable contacts for hotels, transports, dentist etc..  He knows the pitfall to avoid in this lovely country.  His web site is www.therapies.com/surgery)


No other form of Alternative Therapy has caused more controversy than Psychic Surgery.  It has been tested and analysed by scientists on numerous occasions.  Proved genuine, then proved quackery... and the controversy still rages.

I have personally worked with over 40 different surgeons since 1997 and I have only retained 4.  These 4 I believe to be genuine.  The others I let go of as they either were cheating, were not powerful enough or were unethical.  Be very careful if you go to Philippines on your own.  Most people who have tried this came back disappointed.

The most tested of Psychic surgeons still alive today is Jun Labo.  American and Japanese doctors have tested him genuine on numerous occasions and a film staring Burt Lancaster was shot proving that Jun is genuine.  The film was banned one week after release… and the controversy still rages about Jun's gift.

Psychic Surgery is Impossible I am often told.  Yes, but only according to modern scientific beliefs.  What happens cannot be explained rationally.  But then 100 years ago who would have believed that you could talk to somebody the other side of the earth using a mobile phone.  How do images appear on your TV screen?  I cannot explain this?


http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Psychic-Surgery-healing-in-the-Philippines/

my stand so far, thus:

as pointed out in this article, proofs of healing by faith and its process are deemed to be believable only if they can be tested by technology in line with current western medicine.  that technology still does not exist.  while this stand has its merits on one hand, should everything be dependent on technology on the other?  do we need proof through technological tests that prayers work?

if faith healing works for you, then let your belief in it (including psychic surgery) be based on that personal experience. 

"We must remind ourselves that to this day we do not possess any scientific toolâ€"any detectorâ€"that can furnish us with direct proof of psychic energies or thought.  The measure of electrical brain waves (EEG) in no way directly establishes thoughts and feelings, as laymen believe; it may indicate nothing more than secondary action." (Stelter, 1976, p. 215)

The explanations that have been applied to the practice of psychic surgery range from the use of therapeutic sleight-of-hand producing a placebo effect (Krippner, 1976; Martin, 1998), or, on the other hand, to actual physical manipulations taking place through the spiritual body (Lampis, 1999), the hypothetical bioplasmic body (Sherman, 1966; Valentine, 1973), or in the so-called fourth dimension (Ormond & McGill, 1959).

“Proponents point to controlled studies showing that humans are capable of both extrasensory perception (ESP) and of exerting psychokinetic (mind over matter) effects on objects and organisms” (Walsh, 1990, pp. 194-95). However, research outcomes based on scientific methods have generally been limited.  An inclusive study will recognize that the practice of psychic surgery requires further research in the emerging field of complementary and alternative medicine, beginning with an accurate description of the Filipino espiritistas’ system of healing.

(underscoring mine)

http://www.psychicsurgery.net/

The earliest accounts of psychic surgery were published by curiosity-seeking laypersons in search of “fantastic and unusual” phenomena in Asia (Ormond & McGill, 1959).  These early writings were followed in subsequent decades by publications that included speculations and theories by parapsychologists on this phenomenon and how it should be explained within academic and scientific communities.  The data presented here have been compiled from popular books and scholarly articles written by parapsychologists, psychical researchers, anthropologists, and physicians, as well as practitioners of so-called New Age healing techniques and other professionals using complementary and alternative healing systems.

The research on psychic surgery is troublesome for several reasons that involve conceptual problems of the application of either parapsychological concepts or mainstream scientific methods to a spiritually based practice.  Theories of the psychokinetic displays of alleged healers include materialization, dematerialization, and teleportation, as well as esoteric speculations about energy transference.  It is debatable whether the technology exists to test these theories put forth by psychical researchers such as Meek (1987), Stelter (1976), parapsychologist Krippner (1976), and others, regarding how the psychic surgeons are affecting people’s health and illness.

(underscoring mine)

http://www.psychicsurgery.net/

The System of Healing Used by the Filipino Espiritistas

The practice of faith healing and psychic surgery in the Philippines has fascinated many Westerners since the first accounts by observers reached the outside world in the late 1950s prior to the onset of complimentary and alternative medicine (CAM) frameworks.  The practice of psychic surgery by Filipino espiritistas (faith healers, who claim to communicate with discarnate entities), a technique of purportedly entering the human body with bare hands and without the use of anesthetics, defies the laws of medical science as they are currently understood.  Serious study of psychic surgery has been neglected by mainstream academic and scientific communities, simply because the phenomenon lies far outside the generally accepted concepts and applications of allopathic medicine, the dominant form of medicine practiced in the West and in other industrialized cultures.  Psychic surgeons are under constant scrutiny because people often cannot believe their own eyes when observing the phenomena and assume the practitioners are merely master magicians utilizing sleight-of-hand.

In the West, this practice would commonly constitute fraud since the medical establishment does not recognize the use of therapeutic sleight-of-hand, which, at best, is considered to evoke a placebo or expectation effect resulting in positive outcomes.  In spite of significant results of placebo surgeries performed in the early 1950s by Henry Beecher and Leonard Cobb and associates (cited in Harrington, 1977, p. 22), prior to increased ethical restraints in the United States, this practice has largely been scoffed at or ignored.  However, the data will show that over the past half century, many patients continue to report remarkable recoveries at the hands of the psychic surgeons in the Philippines (Krippner, 1976; Krippner & Villoldo, 1976; Licauco,1977,1992,1999; Martin, 1998, 1999; McDowall, 1998; Sherman, 1966; Sladek, 1976; Stelter, 1976; Valentine, 1973).

(underscoring mine)

http://www.psychicsurgery.net/

kun  gipayag na lang unta ni bana ang kasagingan pareha sa silingan nila ni bqn (nga iyang giestorya sa lain nga thread), makakita pa unta siyag mutya sa saging ug di police precinct.

Quote from: hubag bohol on May 18, 2011, 09:58:19 AM
Unsa toy pangalan ani nga girl's game?

sa akong nahibaw-an, piko kun waray, biko o biko-biko kun cebuano, hopscotch kun english.  kusog ko moduwa ani sa panahon ni mampor.  wa na ko makakita nga naay niduwa ani ron; tungod tingali sa computer games.

na, gikan sa baka ngadto sa komander na man mo...

Massive asteroid could hit Earth in 2182, warn scientists

By Niall Firth
28th July 2010

A massive asteroid might crash into Earth in the year 2182, scientists have warned.

The asteroid, called 1999 RQ36, has a 1-in-1,000 chance of actually hitting the Earth at some point before the year 2200, but is most likely to hit us on 24th September 2182.

It was first discovered in 1999 and is more than 1,800 feet across.  If an asteroid of this size hit the Earth it would cause widespread devastation and possible mass extinction.

And scientists say that any attempt to try and divert the asteroid will have to take place more than 100 years before it is due to hit to have any chance of success.


Artist's impression of the Chicxulub crater on the Yukatan peninsula in Mexico.
The massive impact of the asteroid may have been responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1298285/Massive-asteroid-hit-Earth-2182-warn-scientists.html

kwaknit nga angzo nga naduhig sa iti sa adlawan nga gituslo sa una sa ginamos sa balingsya nga giparisan ug ginanggang nga buwad nga sanga nga tinumban ug tiil nga gipangagod nga gimedyasan ug wa labhi ug 37 ka tuig.  siyarog di mo mahilangit. 

what a thoughtless husband.

sikat tuod ang ginamos sa valencia, matod sa uban.  ang wa nako damha nga ang kalamay diay dinhi iti ug manok.

ang mga ugorrrrrkkkk baya, nanglibak ug paatubang...  1960s?  hehe, bantay baya ug di mo mangamen kun maka-eb ta.  duklon gyod ta mo sa akong baston nga inigkuha sa handle katana sword diay, na, matuli gyod mog ahat, krusmayhart mga pizuta mo.

Quote from: hofelina on June 28, 2011, 06:19:20 PM
Mabuhay ka Isles, you are my hero!

thanks, hof.  mauwaw man sad ta nimo.  kun motoo pa kog reincarnation, makaingon lang tingali ko nga may posibilidad nga iring ko sa una, aray ko.

hehe, kalig-on sad ana ug lawas uy.  mauwaw man sad tang moangkon nga sa bata-bata pa ko ana... kadtong panahon nga wa kay kalibotan kay gikugos pa ta ka, imo pa gyod kong gipakapinan ug kalibang.  ing-ani ka pa sa una, du:



baby bugsay batman (bbb)
 

Coping with death

At its heart, Dosa's search is more about how people cope with death than Oscar's purported ability to predict it.  Dosa suffers from inflammatory arthritis, which could render his joints useless.  He worries about losing control of his life in old age, much as his patients have lost theirs.

Parts of his book are fictionalized.  Dosa said several patients are composite characters, though the names and stories of the caregivers he interviews are real and many feel guilty.  Donna Richards told Dosa that she felt guilty for putting her mother in a nursing home.  She felt guilty for not visiting enough.  When caring for her mother, Richards felt guilty about missing her teenage son's swimming meets.

Dosa learns to live for the moment, much like Oscar, who delights in naps and chin scratches or the patient who recovers enough to walk the hall holding the hand of the husband she'll eventually forget.

The doctor advises worried family members to simply be present for their loved ones.

Richards was at her mother's bedside nonstop as she died.  After three days, a nurse persuaded her to go home for a brief rest.  Despite her misgivings, Richards agreed.  Her mother died a short while later.

But she didn't die alone.  Oscar was there.




http://today.msnbc.msn.com/

Oscar's accuracy

He's accurate enough that the staff â€" including Dosa â€" know it's time to call family members when Oscar stretches beside their patients, who are generally too ill to notice his presence.  If kept outside the room of a dying patient, he'll scratch at doors and walls, trying to get in.

Nurses once placed Oscar in the bed of a patient they thought gravely ill.  Oscar wouldn't stay put, and the staff thought his streak was broken.  Turns out, the medical professionals were wrong, and the patient rallied for two days.  But in the final hours, Oscar held his bedside vigil without prompting.

Dosa does not explain Oscar scientifically in his book, although he theorizes the cat imitates the nurses who raised him or smells odors given off by dying cells, perhaps like some dogs who scientists say can detect cancer using their sense of scent.




http://today.msnbc.msn.com/

A comforting presence

He once feared that families would be horrified by the furry grim reaper, especially after Dosa made Oscar famous in a 2007 essay in the New England Journal of Medicine.  Instead, he says many caregivers consider Oscar a comforting presence, and some have praised him in newspaper death notices and eulogies.

"Maybe they're seeing what they want to see," he said, "but what they're seeing is a comfort to them in a real difficult time in their lives."

The nursing home adopted Oscar, a medium-haired cat with a gray-and-brown back and white belly, in 2005 because its staff thinks pets make the Steere House a home.  They play with visiting children and prove a welcome distraction for patients and doctors alike.

After a year, the staff noticed that Oscar would spend his days pacing from room to room.  He sniffed and looked at the patients but rarely spent much time with anyone â€" except when they had just hours to live.


http://today.msnbc.msn.com/

Scientist profiles cat who predicts death
Dr. David Dosa sought to understand Oscar the cat’s unexplainable talent



PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island â€" The scientist in Dr. David Dosa was skeptical when first told that Oscar, an aloof cat kept by a nursing home, regularly predicted patients' deaths by snuggling alongside them in their final hours.

Dosa's doubts eroded after he and his colleagues tallied about 50 correct calls made by Oscar over five years, a process he explains in a book released this week, "Making Rounds With Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat."  The feline's bizarre talent astounds Dosa, but he finds Oscar's real worth in his fierce insistence on being present when others turn away from life's most uncomfortable topic: death.

"People actually were taking great comfort in this idea, that this animal was there and might be there when their loved ones eventually pass," Dosa said.  "He was there when they couldn't be."

Dosa, 37, a geriatrician and professor at Brown University, works on the third floor of the Steere House, which treats patients with severe dementia.  It's usually the last stop for people so ill they cannot speak, recognize their spouses and spend their days lost in fragments of memory.


                                                           STEW MILNE  /  ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this July 23, 2007 file photo, Oscar, a hospice cat with an uncanny knack for predicting
when nursing home patients are going to die, walks past an activity room at the
Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, R.I.


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"His mere presence at the bedside is viewed by physicians and nursing home staff as an almost absolute indicator of impending death, allowing staff members to adequately notify families." -Dr. David Dosa



Oscar, who has a kitty co-worker named Mya, has received an award for his service to humanity.  Dr. Dosa published the accounts of this psychic kitty in The New England Journal of Medicine.


excerpts from http://www.shopcat.com/ and wiki

What's unusual, though, is the frequency with which Oscar chooses to spend time with patients in their last hours of life. Doctors and workers at the nursing home have reported that when Oscar senses a patient is going to pass on, he jumps up on the bed with them and begins purring.

He often shows up a few hours prior to the patient's death, and he leaves their bedside shortly after. Reports of his amazing talent started early in his career, and Oscar has reportedly now predicted 50 deaths.

While it's not known just how Oscar is able to do this, he often keeps family members company during this stressful time. His actions also may alert staff members to the impending passing of a patient, giving them time to call the family so they can show up and be with their loved one.

Animals with Jobs/Oscar the Therapy Cat-2

Oscar has a job as a therapy cat in a nursing home.  He's known as the "cat that predicts death" as he often comforts patients during their final hours.

Oscar's job is in a nursing home in Providence, R.I.  Apparently, Oscar, a tabby and white who was rescued from an animal shelter, has the ability to sense when people are going to die.

As a hospice cat at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Oscar works in an end-stage dementia unit and it's inevitable that some of his patients will die.

hehe.  basta iring, i'm not far behind. 

nag-death watch ko ron ug kitten mora rag kinumo kadak-a.  ambot unsay nasulod sa ulo sa inahan ani, basta iyang gidala ug gibiyaan sa pultahan.  natambalan na ni ganina ug veterinarian as an emergency case, but i'm not leaving it to chance.  sigehan nakog force-feed ug liquids.  if it makes it in 48 hours, ingon ang vet nga okay na.  sige intawon ug siyagit si bullet (ngan ni kitten) looy kaayo.  i'm going to have a long night.     

human sa lobot, isunod ang ilong ug dunggan.  walang patawad, way bangag pasayloon, yikes!  hinoon, mabuang tingali kog akoy inahan sa bata.  gikabuhi kong gahunahuna.  simbako lang, palayo. 

such disheartening facts.  luckily there are organizations with enough clout to make public such cruelties.  for starters, there is general awareness now.  and just like the development of civilizations, positive changes have been coming out, slowly.  for one, at the end of films, it is now standard to have a disclaimer after the credits that no animals have been hurt during filming.  this is true because a film has to be certified by animal rights groups as such.  and animal rights representatives are present during filming.     

di ko motoo ani.  daghang putatsing dinha nga looking 30 years older than their actual age man lagi.

hahaha!  kini gyod si hubag... kamaayong pisliton.

naunsa na man ning kalibotana... aw, nganong basulon man ang kalibotan tungod lag pipila ka mga tawo nga di diay tawo.  kini ang angay aning tawhana:

Quote from: bugsay on June 27, 2011, 09:18:47 PM
kahibawo ko'g kinsang kamot na....

kang kinsa kaha tuod no?  sa akong bahin man god, ang kitty man ang nagtudlo nako ug drive.

Quote from: Mike Ortega Ligalig on June 11, 2011, 04:32:51 PM
“Our education system places great emphasis on teaching us about facts that are already known, such as historical information or scientific tables, and then testing us in order to measure how much we’ve retained about that body of knowledge. Those skills work perfectly well for many situations, but not when doing something new. Or creative. Or original. They certainly won’t help us invent the future.

As education and creativity researcher and author Sir Ken Robinson puts it, ‘We are educating people out of their creativity.’ But it’s still there. And unleashing our creativity, however deeply it’s hidden, begins with little bets.”

it's difficult to buy this conclusion...

facts that are already known propel us to invent the future.  we don't have to reinvent the wheel anymore.

new frontiers in medical research, such as new medicines, are there because basic information or scientific tables are already there, passed on by previous generations who opened doors for us.  we have to learn the basics.

we have computers because those who invented the future know basic math and logic.

sure, we may not need history once we work as accountants, but what accountant will not heed the lessons of enron and madoff as part of accounting's history?  and do i have to be an astronomer to know where the north star is?

i will always believe in liberal arts education as a foundation for inventing the future.  we have to be generalists first before we can become specialists.

si alibangbang?  igsoon galing ni siya ni alibaba, kadto bang ig-agaw ni alimango nga apo ni alimasag.

Quote from: bugsay on June 27, 2011, 01:00:19 PM
niingon nga usa ra...usa ka pongpong diay?

aw, pilay pad kun gipahuwam diay ninyo ni chriswise ug tigs kanang uban dinha, para ma-photogenic, di na sapayan i-photoshop.

A Rat Poem By Dr. Seuss

If your ratty gets all scatty 'cos his coat is getting matty
And he's acting kinda batty now he doesn't look so natty
If he starts to get all chatty and to voice pratty demands
Then beware! You've got a bratty tatty ratty on your hands.

If your doe has had a go with all her bro' bucks in a row
And you've seen her face aglow and her belly grow with woe
If she's getting glad and gloating and gargantuous in girth
Then at any time you guess that your grand girl is gonna birth

If your buck has had no luck getting his lazy butt unstuck
And you pluck him from his hammock to a chorus of "You suck!"
If his flaccid furry form is in a squishy slug disguise
Then it's right to get this roly rotund rat some exercise.

- Dr Seuss

hahaha!  mosukol kog kanta ani.  ako ang tig-aw-aw de bow-wow-wow.

Quote from: hubag bohol on June 24, 2011, 02:45:01 PM
He he, nigawas ang tinuod nga Insik siya. Dia ra ang abihid, ay...


         

heh, plutas ba diay na... mula man na itlok ni bai hubak. 

Quote from: cujo on June 26, 2011, 10:43:56 PM
I meet Wolfpack823 today.Sad as expected after the death of her husband this week.The funeral services was touching and beautiful...

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.  (Robert Frost)


I'M SO SORRY.  PLEASE EXTEND MY CONDOLENCE TO WOLFIE, CUJ.

Quote from: magbalantay on June 24, 2011, 11:16:43 PM
    "mini-mini my nimo" diay ni    my nimo....maau nimo diay ni

uuuuyyyy, take your pick lang god... don't be shy...

naa ba say pizut restoration?  mga tuli ba nga gustong magpapizut ug balik... 

Quote from: magbalantay on June 24, 2011, 11:03:37 PM
             oopppssss....sorry lang. nagpagawas ra mi sa among gibati

gibating untoy, gibating nakabuntis, o gibating baog?  take your pick, hehehe.

baby elephant ug adult lion, amigo sila.  maoy akong nakit-an ana nga illusion.

sa kang bugs, unom ka bears akong ihap.  ambot ug sakto ba ko...

makalipong ang cute nga ikaduha nimong illusion, bugs.  labi na inig illusory movement.  nice color combination pa gyod.  ing-ana unta akong gusto nga color sa balay.  problema lang kay di unya mosulod si banana republic.  

Quote from: hubag bohol on June 21, 2011, 10:31:58 AM
He he, basin naa, pero ang imong silipon mga iring nga usa ray ngipon...

peligrog maputlan anang iringa, krusmayhart.

Quote from: rogamz on June 21, 2011, 08:49:08 AM
wla sapayan bay hubs...hehe sa ingon ani paagiha bsin naa offer nato ani sideline bay hubs..tigsilip lang gud makasapi ok na hehe..

mas naay sapi tingali ang tig-drawing kay sa tigsilip, unsa kaha?

hahaha!  tikasan man hinoon ang gawas anang imong thinking outside the box, hubs.

unsa man ni, bai hubag, a change of heart?

luyaha pod uy sa akong internet connection karon... i mean, luya kanunay, but it is terrible now.  maka-discourage kay mohuwat pa kog pila ka minutos una masulod akong posts, hahay.

nahospital pa gani, naghunahuna na ang uban ug libingan ng mga bayani, aray!